My elks of wood I bought last year on the christmas market together with my own sewed hearts/mijn houten elandjes die ik vorig jaar op de kerstmarkt kocht samen met mijn zelfgenaaide hartjes.

On our Front door/Op de voordeur

This I saw at her blog : http://jikkes.blogspot.com/ and I found it so cute/Dit zag ik op haar blog en vond ik zo lief :http://jikkes.blogspot.com/This one is made by Anke I just decorated it with ribbon for Christmas/Deze krans maakte Anke voor mij ik heb 'm met geruit lint een beetje kerst gemaaktOutside I made this...filled up with snow now/Buiten maakte ik dit...ondergesneeuwd nuAn another one made by Anke and decorated by me/En nog een gemaakt door Anke en gedecoreerd door mij.

zaterdag 12 december 2009

I was working on a big order for a new shop so no time for other things, but yesterday while I was working on a new bag I figured it was time to do something else in between. I still had to make a little present for a baby girl that was born 3 weeks ago in the neigbourhood, I decide to make something else this time :-) just take a look:

zaterdag 21 november 2009

Today I finished my first backpack, Isn't it cute and I love the way the colours match together??(7 different fabrics together) It was a lot of work, but isn't it always with the firts one you make....

maandag 16 november 2009

This weekend I went to my first Adventshow. Saturday I had to bake a pie first because my husband had his birthday and his parents were coming over for a visit. After I finished that we took of to http://www.landfrauen-cafe.de/index.php to set up our table. From 15 till 17 there was some kind of preview-sale for the "Landfrauen". It wasn't very busy but I spoke with many people and I sold a mini-messenger bag and some chritsmas-items.

Sunday the show started at 10 , there were so many people all day, I sold a lot of christmas items and key-cords, but most important is that it made so much fun. Explaining to people what you do, about my online-shop http://helen-originals.com/ giving them cards >networking :-). I went together with Katharina, she makes luxury bathing-soaps, you can see and buy them here: http://seifenschaumshop.com/index.php and we also took beautiful handmade coronets made of limb made by Anke and some jewellery she made. Just take a look at the pictures.

donderdag 12 november 2009

Coming weekend I am going to the Advent show of the "landfrauen" http://www.landfrauen-cafe.de/index.php. I am really looking forward and was preparing for this show for quite some time. Today I took care of the last things and now I am ready to go :-) But it's Thursday and the show starts at Saturday so tomorrow I can do whatever I want to do, isn't that great! Proud of me :-)

maandag 26 oktober 2009

The "Advents-ausstellung" at http://www.landfrauen-cafe.de/adventsausstellung.php is coming closer and so I am still working on small items, I know made Key-holders as well out of cotton webbing with a touch of design fabric, so much fun making those....and such a nice present to give away

maandag 21 september 2009

What's more beautiful then making something for someone and find out that they are totally satisfied about what you made for them? For Bram&Kwibus I made this covers for their beds, I heard they were waiting for the postman to come for three days. After they opened the package they were delighted . I asked for a picture of those two lying on the new covers and here they are (actually they weren't in the mood for a picture because they knew the chickens were walking in the garden, maybe that's why they look a little bored :-) )

vrijdag 18 september 2009

Today it's daddy's birthday and although he passed away almost 2 years ago it still is and will stay his birthday. So dad where-ever you are, and sometimes I just know you're very close to me : Happy Birtday. I love you and miss you a lot.......

maandag 14 september 2009

Today I worked on a new project, a so called "Knot-Bag", it's a cute little bag that you can close by pulling the longer carry belt through the smaller one. I think it became a very nice, sweet little bag.

zaterdag 12 september 2009

This afternoon, after baking 3 pies and making 7 glasses of marmelade, I managed to finish my second Notebook-Bag! I made it a litlle different then the first one, but for you that's hard to see, it has to do with the inside batting :-) . I worked with Joel Dewberry home decor fabric again, from the Ginseng collections, they are just so pretty and look lovely together.

vrijdag 4 september 2009

After hard working (sewing) the firts Notebook Bag is finished! I made it out of Joel Dewberry Home Decor designer fabric, because this fabric is thicker than the other ones, I put in a extra strong batting and created an inside and outside bag. The bag also has a zipper to close and the size is 30 (h) x 40 (W) cm, the carry belt is 70 cm. For sale in my webshop: http://helen-originals.com/

dinsdag 25 augustus 2009

Today I was very busy, I made 90 little business-cards all by myself. Although it's so much work I think it looks nice and tells something about me and the things I make as well. After finishing that job I sewed a new bag, with very loveley Joel Dewberry fabric, I just love these colours.

Saturday morning, I just do now what I always like to do in the morning time...walk the dogs first, then make myself a coffee, put on my computer and surf around the world-wide-web a little bit. I worked very hard this week at the gallery where I help out with workshops making jewellery. Today I am driving over to the pretty little village where the new /gallery store is located and will work there for the first time.......I am very anxicious how it will be there. And tomorrow it's the last sunday of the month again then I am working at the gallery here.

The last few days I worked hard again. I wrote a lot of things down and I translated the shop in 3 languages! Oh and I also registered my domain........de laatste dagen werd er weer hard gewerkt, veel op papier gezet, de shop in 3 talen (!) en de domeinnaam vastgelegd........